
Aquanauts experience awe-inspiring ‘underview effect’
Like astronauts’ “overview effect,” a dramatic feeling of awe takes hold on extended seafloor stays

Aquanauts experience awe-inspiring ‘underview effect’
Like astronauts’ “overview effect,” a dramatic feeling of awe takes hold on extended seafloor stays

Anthropic warns AI could soon start improving itself. Critics aren’t convinced
The maker of Claude wants AI labs, including itself, to prepare for a coordinated slowdown if models begin building their own successors

Astronauts take shelter on the International Space Station because of air leaks
NASA ordered its astronauts to take refuge inside a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and to prepare for potential evacuation of the International Space Station. But the crew returned to normal operations shortly afterward

Report: FDA just launched a study on the abortion pill
The FDA’s ongoing review of mifepristone could skip over established science, health experts warn

Giant black holes may be the universe’s best planet makers
Planets might exist in the least likely place you’d imagine—around the outskirts of supermassive black holes

How breast cancer screening can predict heart disease risk
AI analysis of mammograms could provide a “bonus finding” for heart disease

Inside the multiyear effort to rename PCOS
A physician involved in the long push to change the name PCOS to PMOS takes us behind the scenes of this subtle yet consequential change

Trump invokes Defense Production Act to keep U.S. coal plants running
Coal is the most significant fossil fuel contributor to climate change

Remote work is making Americans lonelier and sadder, new study suggests
Remote and hybrid work can have benefits, but a study involving more than 588,000 people suggest they may take a serious mental toll

Bumblebees use tools to solve complex problems—despite not being trained to do so
Bumblebees appear to be capable of coming up with creative solutions to new problems to get a sugary reward—and their strategies include cheating

The oldest hominin footprints ever found are at risk of destruction, researchers warn
A new investigation alleges that official organizations in Tanzania have imperiled the country's artifacts and remains at four critical human heritage sites they were supposed to protect

A flesh-eating New World screwworm was just found in a Texas cow—here’s what to know
This marks the first case of the New World screwworm in U.S. livestock since the parasite was eliminated in the country in the 1960s